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Don C - You got it. XP is still a fine OS for machine control as long as you don't let it near the internet. That's getting extended value out of hardware/software that's long paid for. I like it:) I've still got several XP level systems I have not quite gotten around to carting to the dump. They all worked when I turned them off. I'll be happy to send them to you. Gilgongo - An infected XP machine has the potential to infect anything it connects to. The issues are what virus/malware is present and...

"Mats Wessling: If you really are interested in making jamulus safe then its crucial that you help with how the virus would get into message and then how it would get out in server... i meanwho else would? " I have helped make Jamulus safer. I have explained to you guys the obvious, that running an OS like XP, whose support has expired, on the web is stupid (naive almost beyond belief in 2020). It is a potential exposure of all of us to exploits that are best prevented by avoiding them. I have suggested...

"Doesn't that mean any client/server system on the Internet would be passing malware around that was supplied by compromised XP hosts?" Yep, pretty much. That's why I was strongly advocating NOT exposing a computer running an unsupported OS, like XP, to the web. Commit suicide if you want, but please do not include me, and all the other Jamulus users, in your line of fire. "how malware from within packets of jamulus datastream could infect the server host? (i'm totally serious: as jamulus are spreading...

"Doesn't that mean any client/server system on the Internet would be passing malware around that was supplied by compromised XP hosts?" Yep, pretty much. That's why I was strongly advocating NOT exposing a computer running an unsupported OS, like XP, to the web. Commit suicide if you want, but please do not include me, and all the other Jamulus users, in your line of fire. "how malware from within packets of jamulus datastream could infect the server host? (i'm totally serious: as jamulus are spreading...

There are as many possibilities as there are flavors of malware/viruses/exploits. A simple one would be replication by injecting malware into any outbound IP data stream on the exploited computer. That could include Jamulus without the malware targeting it explicitly. All the IO is downstream from the exploit. The process is: Exploit XP client, export malware from client to server, infect server, server rebroadcasts malware to infect all logged on clients, repeat. Every time I get noise in the Jamulus...

Sigh, think of corruption of Jamulus as an unintended consequence of exposing an XP computer to the web. The exploitation of XP machines on the web is nearly 100% within hours of going on line. Once that happens all other processes on that computer are vulnerable. They are downstream from the exploitation. They are vulnerable in many ways, depending on the nature of the exploit. I have little love for Microsoft (or Apple for that matter), but I do respect the amount of effort they put into patching...

Mugnaio and violante, You really, really do not want to expose your XP OS PCs to the web. It is an open invitation to be massively had. I am not a fan of how Microsoft does things, but using an obsolete nearly 20 year old OS on the web is foolhardy to the point of recklessness both to yourselves and to any of the rest of us you connect to. Volker, I encourage you to lock out obsolete, no longer supported OS versions for the protection of the Jamulus user community. If people want to be stupid on...

"When you say they share a cable what do you mean? " A cat 6 cable to the router/DSL modem from a 5 port switch at the computers with cables to each ethernet port. Very straight forward LAN. It keeps local latency low and keeps the computers I use for Jamulus isolated from the rest of the network, but that's another story. Thanks for pointing me towards likely suspects. After eliminating firewall/anti virus/anti malware as issues I looked at ASIO drivers as the next most likely suspect and that's...